One command, many verbs

Type /design-engineering into your agent and press Enter, with nothing after it. Nothing runs.

That's on purpose. Watch what it does instead.

One entry, one word

The skill has a single slash command. Everything else is the first word you type after it, the verb, followed by a target: a file, a folder, a symptom in quotes.

$ /design-engineering review src/PricingCard.tsx

The skill reads that first word and looks it up in its dispatch table. If it's a verb, it opens that verb's command file and follows it exactly. Each command file is a whole procedure on its own: what to read, in what order, what to return, where to hand off.

The four rules of dispatch

1. A verb (or its alias)

   Open its command file. The rest of your words are the target.

2. A plain request

   "Why does this card feel flat" isn't a verb, so the router runs: it finds your design contract, works out the phase, and names one or two owners.

3. No words, but a design request already in the chat

   Treat that request as the plain request.

4. No words, no request

   Show the menu, lead with the 2–3 verbs that fit what's in front of it, and wait.

What "fits" means: a diff on your branch leads with review; a .design file leads with tokens; a video file leads with film review; launch week leads with ship. A bare command never auto-runs a verb. A wrong guess spends a whole pass, and surprises nobody wants.

If two verbs fit your words, it asks once. If none fits and the job isn't design (backend logic, data, build tooling), it says no skill applies.

Which verb? Describe it

You don't need to memorise the table. Describe your situation in your own words and see which verb answers it.

Aliases: other names for the same verb

Most verbs answer to a second or third name, an alias, so whatever word comes to you first works.

The short verbs

A handful of verbs are small: each hands the job to one owner and stops where that owner says stop.

options has its own small modes once you've seen the first three:

1. riff

   Three more directions near the one you liked.

2. tune

   A control panel on the kept direction, and nothing else.

3. mix

   Parts of the other variants carried onto your chosen base, as a list of portable features.

4. keep

   Write the decision down, delete the harness, keep the worst-case data.

/design-engineering name "the menu grows out of the button that opened it"
/design-engineering which "a toast that screen readers never announce"
/design-engineering options riff

Every verb keeps its posture

Each verb names a posture and holds it. review, tells and a11y judge: they report and never edit unless you ask afterwards. polish, mobile and ship fix. break is an adversary that reports and stops. name answers and stops.

And every verb applies your two override files, gotchas and pov, plus your project's design contract, which outranks both.